For readers who are not familiar with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Senior Scientist Dr. William Thompson, known globally as the CDC whistleblower, the 2016 documentary film Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe is essential viewing. Further in-depth analysis can be found in Kent Heckenlively’s book Inoculated which brilliantly chronicles the story of how vaccines have become a thirty-year disaster since the passage of the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act. Inoculated was released in 2016 and uses Dr. William Thompson as a focal point to tell perhaps the biggest scandal of our century.

Recently an important and symbolic meeting of the minds took place between Vaxxed producer Del Bigtree and Inoculated author Heckenlively. They spoke at length three years after Dr. Thompson’s public admissions about where the American public stands, if justice will be served and theories about Dr. Thompson?

CDC’s Checkered Past

On November 7, 2001, Dr. William Thompson found that the timing of the MMR vaccine was critical regarding the increased risk of autism in African American children. A CDC-conducted study was supposed to once and for all answer the question “Does the MMR vaccine pose a statistically significant increased risk of autism in children.”Dr. Thompson shared his alarming findings in a private meeting at the CDC in 2001. It turns out, according to Dr. Thompson’s admissions and whistleblowing data, that the CDC’s research team did find an increased risk of autism. The decision was decided by his coauthors, Dr. Tanya Bhasin, Dr. Coleen Boyle, Dr. Marshalyn Yeargin-Allsopp, Dr.Frank DeStefano along with then CDC director Dr. Julie Gerberding to purposely bury those inconvenient truths. The following statement, written by Dr. Thompson, was admitted into record on the floor of the US House of Representatives by Florida Congressman Bill Posey on July 29, 2015:

“All the authors and I met and decided sometime between August and September of 2002 not to report any race effects for the paper. Sometime soon after the meeting we decided to exclude reporting any race effects. The coauthors scheduled a meeting to destroy documents related to the study. The remaining four coauthors all met and brought a big garbage can into the meeting room and reviewed and went through all the hard copy documents that we had thought we should discard and put them in a huge garbage can.”

Louder Than Words

Three years have passed and the mainstream media has been silent. The only stance allowed to be taken publicly by the legacy media corporations regarding vaccines and any connection to autism is that there is none. Ironically, mainstream media reports often cite the CDC’s conflicted 2004 study, published in the journal Pediatrics, as part of the proof there is no connections between vaccines and autism. Yet the same media reports purposely omit all mention of Dr. Thompson, his public admissions and his evidence even though he is an author on the questionable 2004 Pediatrics study. To be clear, Dr. Thompson isn’t the only black eye for the vaccine industry but he certainly is one of many elephants in the room.

​Aside from Dr. Thompson’s public statement made through his lawyer, he also provided thousands of documents. In addition, Brian S. Hooker, PhD, PE recored Dr. Thompson in a series of phone calls in which the CDC scientist made damning statements condemning his agency, its internal fraud and his own guilt for what he had done. Speaking on the [legally] recored phone calls, HighWire host and Vaxxed producer Del Bigtree made the point:

“Some of the Snopes and people debunk it [the recorded interview] and they say,“well he didn’t even know he was being recorded.” In my mind, that makes him the cleanest whistleblower we’ve ever had because usually the knock on a whistleblower is that they have some other vested interest, they’re angry with their employers, they’re blackmailing their employers or they’re trying to get a payout. This is a man [Dr. Thompson] who literally is saying these things without anything to gain.”

Heckenlively, who methodically laid out Dr. Thompson’s story using the mass of public documents he released along with interviews of various key players, added:

“This is a human story and every story of people involved in this [admitted research fraud], they’re not monsters; they certainly can do monstrous things. They don’t start out that way. They don’t get up saying, “Hey, I’m going to cover-up harm to children.” But step by step they end up doing exactly that. In going through my own research in the fact that they [the CDC scientists] came up with a really good research plan, that they didn’t follow, makes me think that they’re terrified and they’re doing horrible things and it is effecting us as a species and, you know, we just have to tell the truth and get that message out there.”

The reality of what appears to be happening within the CDC and perhaps throughout much of industry-funded vaccine research was summed up by Heckenlively as he added a final thought by saying,”

“As a science teacher I tell my students,“You don’t hide data” and it’s kind of funny because here I am spending my days teaching children to tell the truth and not hide data even when it goes against their hypothesis. And at nighttime I’m working on stories of grown ups that are doing exactly that and harming children.”

Through the efforts of the Vaxxed team, Heckenlively, and thousands of individuals who have not let this story die the tide appears to be turning. Speaking at The Revolution for Truth on March 31, 2017 Del Bigtree had this to say:

"Just about a year ago I came to Washington, D.C. for the first time and went into politician's offices, including Jason Chaffetz among others, and would ask the question, "Are you aware of Dr. William Thompson the CDC whistleblower?"...just a blank stare..."I have no idea what you're talking about." Really? Really? You do realize a year and a half ago one of our top scientists of our most important health agencies in our nation came forward and said they are committing scientific fraud. You're not aware of that? "Never heard of it?" Yesterday I was in D.C. – my third trip now – and every office I went to, including those who are diametrically opposed to our truth, I asked the question, "Are you aware of Dr. William Thompson the CDC Whistleblower?" And every single one of them said, "Yes I am.”"

It was announced on June 8, 2017 that The Republican Steering Committee had elected Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., to serve as the next chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.​ Gowdy will be replacing outgoing Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), who, for unknown reasons, will be resigning from congress at the end of June. Gowdy will now be the one with the power to investigate the CDC and bring forth Dr. Thompson.